Putting the "Love of Humanity" Back in Corporate Philanthropy: The Case of Health Grants by Corporate Foundations.

Autor: Boodoo MU; Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, WBS 2.135, Scarman Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL UK., Henriques I; Schulich School of Business, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada., Husted BW; EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Av. Eugenio Garza Laguera y Rufno Tamayo, 66269 San Pedro Garza García, N.L. México.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of business ethics : JBE [J Bus Ethics] 2022; Vol. 178 (2), pp. 415-428. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 10.
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04807-2
Abstrakt: With the growing call for private sector actors to address global challenges, it is necessary to first assess whether regions with the greatest needs are accessing corporate philanthropy. In this paper, we ask whether corporate philanthropy is reaching those with the greatest health-care needs. Drawing on economic geography and corporate homophily, we argue that corporate philanthropy tends to exacerbate health inequality as grants are destined for counties with fewer health problems. We test and find support for this hypothesis using data on health grants made by US corporate foundations and county-level health data. Our results that corporate health grants are less likely to go to counties which have a lower proportion of medical service providers and insured citizens suggest that corporate foundations are unwittingly complicit in worsening the resource gap between small, poor, rural counties and large, wealthy, urban counties. From an ethical perspective, we provide some guidance as to how this may be corrected.
(© The Author(s) 2021.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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